As of Wednesday, home and furniture retailer Ikea no longer will provide free shopping bags – plastic or paper.

The Conshohocken, Pa.-based retailer said it set a goal last year of reducing plastic bag consumption by 50 percent, with the ultimate idea of doing away with them all together.

Customers can purchase Ikea’s reusable bag for 59 cents – or not use a bag at all.

If you just have to have a plastic bag, Ikea will sell you one for 5 cents, with all proceeds going to American Forests, a nonprofit organization that restores forests in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the country consumes more than 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps each year. Each year, Americans throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags – and less than 1 percent of them are recycled.